I'll truly be supporting him with this one!Two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso will contest the Indianapolis 500 for a third time with the Arrow McLaren SP IndyCar outfit.
Alonso's #66 Chevrolet-powered car, a third entry in addition to those driven by the team's full-time 2020 IndyCar drivers Patricio O'Ward and Oliver Askew, will hit the track for the first time in the Indy 500 open test on April 30.
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Alonso back to McLaren for 2020 Indy 500
Nope, not deja vu, but it's really happening.
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I hope he doesn't win, just so he comes back next year . But good news.
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So they got one complete rookie in Askew, one almost rookie in Pato, who DNQ-ed last year, and Alonso, who has one Indy 500 under his belt. The talk of adding a fourth car for Bourdais may not seem that outer worldly, after all. They need someone to help with set ups.
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Cheaper to buy setups from Andretti?
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Are setups/lack of preparation the reason why Alonso failed to qualify last time?
Since it's a flat out circuit you cannot simply blame the driver for being several seconds off the pace, especially if he is a pro.
Since it's a flat out circuit you cannot simply blame the driver for being several seconds off the pace, especially if he is a pro.
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McLaren purchased a car from technical partner Carlin, and though the car was orange when McLaren received it, it was not the proper McLaren “papaya orange.” It had to be repainted after the test, and that still had not been completed when Alonso crashed his McLaren-built car last Wednesday.
The Carlin spare was in a paint shop 30 minutes from the track, more than a month after McLaren complained about the color, and it ultimately cost McLaren almost two full days of track time.
Alonso went into qualifying on shaky ground. His first qualifying run was sabotaged by a tire puncture — which wasn’t detected beforehand because Brown said the team had purchased incorrect tire sensors.
It was Amateur Hour Deluxe.Alonso went out to practice Sunday with an entirely new setup, but in the frantic changeover a mistake was made in converting inches to the metric system the English team uses and the car scraped and sparked on his first lap. It had to be fixed and Alonso got in just five more laps before rain ended the session.
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With Hampson at the helm, they'll probably do well regardless. They're a damn sight more prepared than last year. Not that it's a difficult task to achieve, really.
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Yeah, no way they'd expand in this climate.
https://racer.com/2020/05/29/arrow-mcla ... ntil-2021/Brown also reconfirmed Fernando Alonso will join the team, as previously announced, for the Indy 500.
Yeah, no way they'd expand in this climate.
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Well, enjoy it while it lasts. He won't be back in 2021 or 2022...
Fernando Alonso will not be allowed to race in the Indianapolis 500 in 2021 or 2022 even if there are no clashes as a result of his Renault Formula 1 contract.
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Fernando Alonso will not be allowed to race in the Indianapolis 500 in 2021 or 2022 even if there are no clashes as a result of his Renault Formula 1 contract.
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He's a nutter, but it would be good for the series to have him on a part-time schedule.
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